Lymphedema and COVID-19 – Risk Lymphedema is not expected to increase your risk for COVID-19 infection – having lymphedema should neither increase your susceptibility to COVID-19 infection, nor increase the severity of COVID-19 symptoms. Generally speaking, COVID-19 complications tend to arise in people whose lung function is impaired, or in…
There are many reasons to maintain a healthy body weight, but preventing the chronic swelling condition known as lymphedema is probably one that you’ve never heard of. In fact, there’s a good chance that your family doctor hasn’t heard of the connection between obesity and lymphedema either. This is not…
An interesting study of breast cancer related lymphedema suggest that stem cells present in chronically swollen arms exhibit an enhanced ability to form fat tissue, an observation which may explain the dramatic rise in arm fat levels observed in cases of chronic lymphedema. Fat accumulation is a poorly understood and…
